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' GAR COUPLING. No; 336,260. Patented Feb. 16, 1886..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, MILES PETTET AND SAMUEL NOXON, OF \VELLINGTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,260, dated February 16, 1886. Application filed December 14, 1885. Serial No. 185,607. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MiLns PETTET and SAMUEL NoXoN, both of Wellington, in the county of Prince Edward, in the Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of our invention is to upwardly guide the coupling-link in adraw-head of one car into the draw-head of an annexing car when one car is lower than the other, or when a link droops.

Our invention consists of an arm having at one end an inclined head, the other end bent anglewise and hinged to a bar or block under the draw-head, and a spring supporting the arm horizontally, whereby the inclined head will project downwardly from near the mouth of the draw-head, to conduct the link upwardly when the link strikes the inclined head, and subsequently when the draw head strikes the inclined head the arm will drop vertically, to permit contact of the draw-heads in coupling.

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a car with draw-head, showing our improvement and front portion of a draw-head of annexing car with link in position for coupling. Fig. 2 is a front view of the draw-head, showing an end view of our improvement.

A is a draw-head, B its coupling-pin, and O the coupling-link of the annexing car in its drawhead D, which, if lower than the drawhead A, coupling would not be effected without lifting the link, and our invention is designed to lift the link to couple automatically.

E is an arm, the outer end provided with a head, E, which inclines downwardly from near the mouth of the draw-head. The inner end,

G, of this arm is bent anglewise, and by a hinge-joint, H, connects with a bar or block, I, secured below or to the under side of the draw-head longitudinally.

J is a spring secured to bar I. The free end of the spring is bent circularly, and has endwise contact with the angle-bent end of arm E, to support the arm horizontally when forcibly raised to that position prior to the cars coming together, so that when link 0 of the annexing draw-head D comes in contact with inclined head F the link will be guided upwardly into the draw-head to effect coupling, and when the draw-head Dstrikes head E the curved end of spring J will be forced downwardly by the anglewise-bent end of arm E until said end passes the spring, when arm E will drop pendently, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and thus allow both drawheads to come together, to permit the cars to couple by pin B dropping into link O.

The inclined head E is curved inwardly on its face, the better to direct the link into the draw-head.

\Ve claim as our invention The combination, with a draw-head, A, of the arm E, having inclined head F and anglewise-bent end G, hinged to block or bar I, secured below or to the under side of the drawhead, and spring J, supporting arm E horizontally to upwardly guide the link 0 of an annexing car into the drawhead forcoupling, and whereby arm E will drop pendently when the inclined head is struck by the drawhead of the annexing car, to allow the draw-heads to come together in coupling, as set forth.

MILES PETTE'I. SAMUEL NOXON. Vitnesses:

WM. GLEMINSON, D. GILLANDERS. 

